Improvement in carpet-rag loopers



W. H. H. WYCKOFF.

CARPET RAG LOOPER.

Patented Nov. 23, 1875.

W I TN ESSES ILPETERS, FHOTO-LITNOGRAFHER, WASHINGTON, D C,

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFICE.

WILLIAM H. H. WYOKOFF, OF LESSER GROSS ROADS, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN C ARPET-RAG LOOPERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,323, dated November 23, 1875; application filed August 21, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM H. H. WYO- KOFF, of Lesser Cross Roads, in the county of Somerset and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Carpet-Rag Loopers; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full,-clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a representation of a perspective view of my looper, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, as operated.

This invention has relation to improvements in carpet-rag loopers, wherein an angular vertically-slottedv blade, attached to a clamping device, whereby the blade is attached to a table, is employed.

In the annexed drawing, A designates the triangular blade of my improved carpet-rag looper, which blade is provided with avertical slot, to, of suitable length, and with a reduced shank, b, which is riveted or otherwise suitably secured to the end of a U-shaped plate, B. This plate is endowed with the properties of a clamp, by means of a screw, S, of suitable construction, which passes upward through the lower end of the said plate, and of which the axis is in the continuation of a line passing through the apexof the blade, and coincident with the axis of the-shank b, as shown in Fig. 1. By this means the looper is adapted to be secured to a table or other like article of furniture. I

In loopers heretofore constructed, the difficulty encountered has been that the ends of the strips 0 D, when passed over the pointed end of the looper-plate, were liable to get beas follows: The body or greatest length of the strip will be passed over the blade after the shorter strip. The free end of the latter will then be passed through slot a in the blade, as

shown in Fig. 2, and both strips will be simultaneously drawn off the blade, causing the shorter strip to be drawn in a loop through the slits in both strips, which, when drawn through the slot at of the blade, will form the well-known Weavers knot.

I am aware that a clamping-frame and a blade for looping carpet-rags have heretofore been combined, and I therefore do not claim such invention, broadly.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The improved carpet-rag looper herein described, consisting of the triangular blade A, having the vertical slot at, side projecting arms 0 c, and the reduced shank b, the Ushaped plate B, having attached at its upper end the blade A, and at its lower end the adjustingscrew 8, for the purpose set forth.

, In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM H. H. WYGKOFF.

Witnesses:

MATT. H. VANDERVEER, D. W. WILSON. 

